mostly classical/old music, and only inconsistently at that). All of the user-uploaded back catalog of scores, which was previously freely available, was recategorized as non-free after this change and thus requiring a Pro subscription to download, except for known public domain source songs (i.e. Want to publish a score for an indie song? Tough luck, people will have to pay money to download it, and none of that money will go to the artist. They have no provision for creative commons and other similarly licensed songs (not scores, they do have that) - everything falls into either original/PD, or collecting and sending Pro fees to collection agencies that have no right to such royalties. They claim this is in order to pay royalties to rights holders (which in practice means a few large multinational sheet music publishers), but do this for every score, regardless of whether the composers are signed to such companies at all. You need an account to be able to download anything, and you need a pro subscription to be able to download anything that isn't either "original" or "based on a public-domain work". They have since taken a very anti-community copyright approach, where they lock all score downloads by default. the online sheet music repository is related to the former, but was sold to Ultimate Guitar. It's an excellent notation app, and getting better, especially lately with Tantacrul's help. MuseScore the open source music notation app, hosted at, is what this is about. Just a reminder that, confusingly, there are two MuseScores.
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